Another season of House so far off to a wonderful start. I didn't get to watch it until just now because I was out last night (happy b-day again, L.C.).
"Don't make friends with terminally ill patients."
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Cameron's response to that is worth noting:
"When a good person dies, there should be an impact on the world. Someone should notice. Someone should be upset."
Good, decent people are rare now--indeed, those who survive the temptation to defect to the dark side of human nature are, to their eternal dismay and betrayal, subjected to scoffs, jealousy, suspicion, and other hostilities both overt and concealed. It is sad enough that society has fragmented under the guise and pressure of globalization, but it is a much more deplorable moral decadence on our part to add onto that the apathy of letting kind, patient, and helpful individuals pass us by without getting to know them, without acknowledging their laudable character, and without assisting them--since we ourselves are either incapable or unwilling--to contribute an ever-so-minuscule shred of hope to this otherwise pathetic existence. --Utterly deplorable!
And so, my friends, I urge each and every one of you to seek out, not new life and new civilizations, but rather extant albeit unsung heroes of our here and now--even right next to you.
They're crying out for companionship, for recognition, and for human contact.
Find them. Save them. So that they may save the world, one at a time, starting with you.
Or, let them stay obscured, lonely, worn down by this miserable world, and die without their disappointed whimper being heard by the blind, selfish, and callous drones.
quid pro quo
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